The Missing Shade of Blue by Jennie Erdal

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This is the first novel to appear under the name of Jennie Erdal, but it’s not
her first — she wrote fiction under the name of Naim Atallah, and went on to
describe the experience in her brilliantly funny book, Ghosting. This
is a complex piece, subtitled A Philosophical Adventure. Edgar Logan
is a young translator who has come to Edinburgh to examine the papers of the
philosopher David Hume, for a French edition of Hume’s essays. Edgar is an
uptight, library-centred type, and his life is thrown into chaos by a chance
meeting with a philosopher called Harry Sanderson and